<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="IncrediMail 1.0" name=GENERATOR>  </HEAD> <BODY style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" text=#00005b bgColor=#eff3f7 background=cid:255D618C-8910-43C6-BB64-FBE22DA01EF9 scroll=yes SIGCOLOR="0" X-ADF="0" X-AD="C3C52140-4147-11D4-BA3D-0050DAC68030" X-APF="1" X-AP="6486DDE0-3EFD-11D4-BA3D-0050DAC68030" X-ANF="0" X-AN="6486DDE0-3EFD-11D4-BA3D-0050DAC68030" X-ASHF="1" X-ASH="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-ASNF="0" X-ASN="ANIM3D00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000" X-FVER="2.0" X-FID="BA285063-5BCE-11D4-AF8D-0050DAC67E11" X-FIT="Letter" X-FCOL="Elegant Paper" X-FCAT="Elegant Paper" X-FDIS="Rice Fields" ORGYPOS="0"> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD id=INCREDITEXTREGION style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; CURSOR: auto; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" vAlign=top width="100%"> <DIV>DOS was originally QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and was written as a clone of CP/M for the 8088/86 processors. There actually was a CP/M86 but Gary Kildall (Digital Research) missed the call from IBM so they went to Microsoft who originally licensed and then bought QDOS and released it as PCDOS and MSDOS. All Microsoft had at that point was an early version of Microsoft Basic.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pete</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage><I>-------Original Message-------</I></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id=receivestrings> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">For users of Fedora Core releases</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:07:20 PM</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">For users of Fedora Core releases</A></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: DOS & MINIX</DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If anything DOS has it's roots in CP/M. Ahhh, those were the days!</DIV> <DIV>Back in the days of using PIP, which probably had it's roots in</DIV> <DIV>RSX or RSTS.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mike</DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV>From: Pete Pardoe</DIV> <DIV>To: <A href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</A></DIV> <DIV>Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:01 PM</DIV> <DIV>Subject: Re: DOS & MINIX</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jeremy</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DOS was created in 1981 MINIX in 1987 so it is hardly possible for DOS to have been created by</DIV> <DIV>taking parts of MINIX. Do a search of the history of each on Google.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pete</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-------Original Message-------</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>From: For users of Fedora Core releases</DIV> <DIV>Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:36:49 PM</DIV> <DIV>To: For users of Fedora Core releases</DIV> <DIV>Subject: Re: Why Would Fedora be Free ? Can it be Trusted?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jeremy Brown wrote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>DOS was created by taking Minix and pulling out the parts that made a</DIV> <DIV>single pc able to boot and run. Early versions of DOS even had the</DIV> <DIV>Minix strings in the code. 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